In the September 2001 issue of Linux Magazine, Konqueror, the KDE all-in-one wunder kind, has been awarded the Tuxie for Best Web Browser as part of the 2001 Editors' Choice Awards (the Tuxies). This new honour adds to the impressive list of awards that the KDE developers have earned in what seems now like many years of dedication and persistence. Congratulations to the hard-working developers who brought us Konqueror, KHTML, KJS, NSPlugins, Internet Keywords, native plugins and all the other marvelous technologies which we know and love as Konqueror.

I hope Konqueror/KHTML will be one day (soon?) an example of a web browser that is standards compliant... like gecko based ones (Mozilla, Galeon, Skipstone, K-Meleon, Netscape6) are.
IMHO, standard compliance is something important for the image of KDE.
I think the lack of PNG support is unfortunately quite important in this scope.

I wonder though, this X-Render thing is supposed to be so cool, but does it act on changes behind the alpha blended image? Because Mosfet's transparent menus do not update when a window beneath it (xchat for example) changes.

Now this usually isn't an issue with websites, but I was just wondering, is this a limitation of the X-Render, or just lazy coding from Mosfet (or anyone who uses the X-Render code)?

I may be wrong, but I think that the X-Render extention it's not yet in place.

If I remember well, Mosfet make transparent menus by first saving in a buffer the image behind the menu and then showing it as the background of the menu; that is why it doesn't get updated when the real background does.

You may want to check these sites out in other browsers as well. Konqui uses the same Java that Mozilla uses. I have tried chat.yahoo.com and it does not load in Mozilla or Konqui with Sun's or anyone's Java clients. Yahoo seems to change their chat client often and have not made it to work with any java client except for IE's and Netscape 4.x's.

It shouldn't bother you. They are one in the same. The plugin is just another way of accessing the java you have installed. It is not a different java than the one you installed, its the same exact one. So if there is a problem with one, there should be a problem with the other one. The only java i have seen work with this is the original java that comes installed with netscape 4.x.

Yep, definetly a well-deserved award. Konqi only needs to keep going down the path it's already on to become even more superior to the closed-source competition! Devel guys, just keep on improving what works very well, and keep on working on the newer projects on the block. After all, whatever you've been doing so far, it's been most successful!

Yes, there is work going on with the project ksvg in kdenonbeta.
There is still a lot of work to do, but a reasonable start has been
made so that at least a few simple svg examples work. The most work
has still to be done in the rendering engine, text/font/glyph and css
support.
The development has been slowed a bit lately, but we hope to continue
from next week on. If anybody wants to help they are always welcome ofcourse.

The Konqueror team really deserves this. Congratulations!
I'm always anxiously awaiting the next release to check the improvements, however in many cases only to find out that I still can't use it for all sites I visit regularly.
Keep up the good work, guys, so one day when I check a new version I can say "yes! no more Explorer, no more Netscape!" :-)

If you mean plugins in general, there isn't really a site to get them from, since there aren't any stable at the moment that aren't already a part of KDE itself (although there might be some in devel I don't know about, try apps.kde.com). You'll find all the known ones in either kdebase or kdeaddons.

I finally figured out how to get CVS from the KDE_2_2_1_RELEASE branch and get it built. It's beautiful so far. The only problem I'm running into with this build (just built day-before-yesterday - since then only a single file has been changed in kdelibs and non in kdebase) is with "javascript:someFunctionOrOther(somedata)" style links, and related things, which seems to be an on-again, off-again problem in Konqueror. Anybody know if 2.2.1 is still being worked on, or is it a "done deal" at this point being packaged up for the distributors? (Trying to decide if it will be helpful or just annoying to report this as a bug in pre-2.2.1 at this late stage...)

Other than this one thing (which crops up on websites just often enough to be irritating), though, Konqueror is running just plain beautifully for me on this build...

I can vouch for the fact that, since I am getting all this for free, I like to thank the developers. Since this is the only forum that can reliably reach them (with the exception of things like the developer lists, which would disrupt their communication), I tend to thank them here when a new release or award is won.

This is not a site for that, I mean to say something relevant. This is official kde-news site and people get informations about kde-related things here. And this is not right place to "think different" because there are some other places to think different:

1. not satisfied with something = do it yourself
2. you have wishes = bugs.kde.org
3. something doesn't work = a) it works here, or b) your distro sucks or, c) you are stupid, or d) send a bug-report
4. if you don't do as mentioned under 1,2,3 = you are troll

konqueror will never be a contender with the masses (just the way i like it) until you don't have to spend hours trying to figure out java support etc. (please don't tell me where the executable goes tyvm!)

nevertheless, i use konqueror every day.

it really has the potential to be a stellar product instead of just a great product. if only it's coders could stop looking at porn and figure out an easy solution for the FUCKING GODDAMN JAVA SUPPORT.